Kinetic Modelling of Bioremediation of Water Contaminated With Bonny Light Crude Oil Using Biostimulation-Bioaugmentation Agent
Journal Title: Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the potential use of cassava steep liquor (CSL) alone and in combination with potassium phosphate and ammonium sulphate (inorganic nutrients) as biostimulationbioaugmentation agent in the bioremediation of crude oil contaminated waters. Bioremediation was carried out for six weeks at ambient temperature in plastic bucket bioreactors containing water artificially contaminated with 10% (v/v) Bonny light crude oil. CSL alone and in combination with potassium phosphate and/or ammonium sulphate was added to each bioreactor. Similar contaminated water without CSL and potassium phosphate/ammonium addition served as control designated as natural bioattenuation. The results revealed that natural bioattenuation, CSL supplementation, CSL + potassium phosphate, CSL + ammonium sulphate, and combined CSL + potassium + ammonium sulphate remediation systems elicited 40%, 58.5%, 67.7%, 64.1% and 77.4% total petroleum hydrocarbon degradation and a corresponding biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) reduction of 52%, 62.7%, 71%, 66.7% and 81.7%, respectively. The microbial load in the contaminated water increased rapidly between days 0 and 7 and decreased between days 14 and 42 in all the remediation systems. A first-order kinetic model fitted well to the biodegradation data and the corresponding half-life time was also estimated. The model revealed that crude oil contaminated water under combined CSL + potassium + ammonium sulphate treatment strategy had higher biodegradation rate constants, k as well as lower half-life times, t 2/1 than other remediation systems. Thus, the results suggest that CSL and in combination with inorganic nutrient could be an indispensable tool in bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons contaminated environment.
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Latinwo G. K. and Agarry S. E.
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